James 5:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days.

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  • Rom 2:5 : 5 But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;
  • 2 Tim 2:17 : 17 And their words will be like poisoned wounds in the flesh: such are Hymenaeus and Philetus;
  • Jas 5:7-8 : 7 Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come. 8 Be as calm in your waiting; let your hearts be strong: because the coming of the Lord is near.
  • Gen 31:48 : 48 And Laban said, These stones are a witness between you and me today. For this reason its name was Galeed,
  • Gen 31:52 : 52 They will be witness that I will not go over these stones to you, and you will not go over these stones or this pillar to me, for any evil purpose.
  • Gen 49:1 : 1 And Jacob sent for his sons, and said, Come together, all of you, so that I may give you news of your fate in future times.
  • Deut 32:33-34 : 33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, the cruel poison of snakes. 34 Is not this among my secrets, kept safe in my store-house?
  • Josh 24:27 : 27 And Joshua said to all the people, See now, this stone is to be a witness against us; for all the words of the Lord have been said to us in its hearing: so it will be a witness against you if you are false to the Lord your God.
  • Job 14:16-17 : 16 For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked. 17 My wrongdoing is corded up in a bag, and my sin is shut up safe.
  • Job 16:8 : 8 It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.
  • Isa 2:2 : 2 And it will come about in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord will be placed on the top of the mountains, and be lifted up over the hills; and all nations will come to it.
  • Jer 19:9 : 9 I will make them take the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters for food, they will be making a meal of one another, because of their bitter need and the cruel grip of their haters and those who have made designs against their life.
  • Mic 3:3 : 3 Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.
  • Mic 4:1 : 1 But in the last days it will come about that the mountain of the Lord's house will be placed on the top of the mountains, and be lifted up over the hills; and peoples will be flowing to it.
  • Acts 2:17 : 17 And it will come about, in the last days, says God, that I will send out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be prophets, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will have dreams:
  • 2 Pet 3:3 : 3 Having first of all the knowledge that in the last days there will be men who, ruled by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things,
  • Rev 17:16 : 16 And the ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will be turned against the evil woman, and will make her waste and uncovered, and will take her flesh for food, and will have her burned with fire.
  • Rev 20:15 : 15 And if anyone's name was not in the book of life, he went down into the sea of fire.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.

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  • Jas 5:1-2
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    1 Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.

    2 Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.

  • Jas 5:4-5
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    4 See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.

    5 You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction.

  • Matt 6:19-21
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    19 Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.

    20 But make a store for yourselves in heaven, where it will not be turned to dust and where thieves do not come in to take it away:

    21 For where your wealth is, there will your heart be.

  • Ezek 7:19
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    19 They will put out their silver into the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the wrath of the Lord; they will not get their desire or have food for their need: because it has been the cause of their falling into sin.

  • Luke 12:33-34
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    33 Give what property you have in exchange for money, and give the money to the poor; make for yourselves money-bags which will not get old, wealth stored up in heaven which will be yours for ever, where thieves will not come nor worms put it to destruction.

    34 For where your wealth is, there will your heart be.

  • Prov 5:10-11
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    10 And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;

    11 And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;

  • Joel 3:5
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    5 And it will be that whoever makes his prayer to the name of the Lord will be kept safe: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem some will be kept safe, as the Lord has said, and will be among the small band marked out by the Lord.

  • Zeph 1:18
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    18 Even their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the Lord's wrath; but all the land will be burned up in the fire of his bitter wrath: for he will put an end, even suddenly, to all who are living in the land.

  • Job 22:24
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    24 And put your gold in the dust, even your gold of Ophir among the rocks of the valleys;

  • Luke 12:20-21
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    20 But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?

    21 So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.

  • 2 Pet 2:3
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    3 And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.

  • Isa 1:22
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    22 Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water.

  • Rom 2:5
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    5 But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;

  • 2 Pet 3:10
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    10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; and in that day the heavens will be rolled up with a great noise, and the substance of the earth will be changed by violent heat, and the world and everything in it will be burned up.

  • Mal 3:9
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    9 You are cursed with a curse; for you have kept back from me what is mine, even all this nation.

  • Eccl 5:13
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    13 And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9 But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.

  • Ezek 24:11-12
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    12 I have made myself tired to no purpose: still all the waste which is in her has not come out, it has an evil smell.

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    7 So that the true metal of your faith, being of much greater value than gold (which, though it comes to an end, is tested by fire), may come to light in praise and glory and honour, at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

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    15 There the fire will make you waste; you will be cut off by the sword: make yourself as great in number as the worms, as great in number as the locusts.

  • Rev 3:17-18
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    17 For you say, I have wealth, and have got together goods and land, and have need of nothing; and you are not conscious of your sad and unhappy condition, that you are poor and blind and without clothing.

    18 If you are wise you will get from me gold tested by fire, so that you may have true wealth; and white robes to put on, so that your shame may not be seen; and oil for your eyes, so that you may see.

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    9 Take no gold or silver or copper in your pockets;

  • Jer 51:13
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    13 O you whose living-place is by the wide waters, whose stores are great, your end is come, your evil profit is ended.

  • Rev 18:14
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    14 And the fruit of your soul's desire has gone from you, and all things delicate and shining have come to an end and will never again be seen.

  • Jer 6:30
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    30 They will be named waste silver, because the Lord has given them up.

  • Isa 30:22
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    22 And you will make unclean what is covering your pictured images of silver, and the plating of your images of gold: you will send them away as an unclean thing, saying, Be gone!

  • Ezek 22:22
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    22 As silver becomes soft in the oven, so you will become soft in it; and you will be certain that I the Lord have let loose my passion on you.

  • Job 27:16-17
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    16 Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing;

    17 He may get them ready, but the upright will put them on, and he who is free from sin will take the silver for a heritage.

  • 1 Pet 1:18
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    18 Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction,

  • 1 Cor 3:12-13
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    12 But on the base a man may put gold, silver, stones of great price, wood, dry grass, cut stems;

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    11 Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man

  • Prov 24:34
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    34 So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.

  • Mal 4:1
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    1 For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch.

  • Eccl 5:10
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    10 When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?

  • Ezek 22:12
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    12 In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.

  • Deut 32:34
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    34 Is not this among my secrets, kept safe in my store-house?

  • Jer 5:25
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    25 Through your evil-doing these things have been turned away, and your sins have kept back good from you.